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Startup Jaxtr Ends Beta, Begins Selling Ads

Raising eyebrows and inviting scepticism that it has 10 million users, social voice service provider Jaxtr says that it has ended its Beta program and is now beginning to sell advertisements to embark more...
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Rumors? Plaxo Sold to Google for $200M?

Plaxo, which was founded in 2001 by Stanford classmates Cameron Ring and Todd Masonis along with Napster cofounder and Facebook founding president Sean Parker is mulling a sale to Google. It is backed more...
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Why Social Applications Will Thrive In A Recession

Giving these points, Josh argues why Social Apps will thrive in Recession: It's not a tech bubble; But social applications are about consideration, not awareness; It's cheap; It's measurable. more...
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Psst ... Facebook Finances Leaked

Planning to go public in 2009, Marc Zuckerberg needs to do something fast on the revenues streams in order to justify their huge valuation as well as the zooming headcount increase (shooting up 450 to more...
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Ex-E*TRADE Chief Goes Social With MOLI

Christos Cotsakos, who founded startup MOLI in 2003, has had plenty of time to refine the company’s business model to ensure it might be one of the key social networking sites, offers some really compelling more...
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How Facebook Gave Birth to an Industry

May 24, 2007 is regarded as the day when the Social Networking Operating System or the Facebook Economy was kick started by Mark Zuckerberg when he announced that the 'startup' social networking site more...
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Plaxo and FriendFeed: More On Presence And The Social Feed

Mike Gotta discusses how Plaxo and FriendFeed solve a very important problem with the social networking sites: there’s been no good way to see what your friends are doing on different sites around the more...
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Monster.com Pays $61M to buy Affinity Labs

Social Networking startup Affinity Labs was just getting off the ground and had raised only $6 million from Mayfield Fund and Trinity Ventures. They are barely gaining traction with sites focused on Nursing, more...
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LinkedIn and Facebook - Are they on a Collision course?

Mathew explores the latest move by LinkedIn to join the party of platform-openers. They just announced that they too now have a platform for development and the question is now - is it on a collision more...
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Three Itty Bitty Digg Clones You Might Not Know

DigWin, BlogsferaNews and StartupNewz are all fighting for their niche in the user-submitted content corner of the blogosphere. What are today's startups may be tomorrow's Digg. And as each has only a more...
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